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Thoughts on The Original Unity of The Human Race. Second Edition: With Additions and Improvements..
Thoughts on The Original Unity of The Human Race. Second Edition: With Additions and Improvements..
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Thoughts on The Original Unity of The Human Race. Second Edition: With Additions and Improvements.

Caldwell, Charles · Cincinnati

Author
Caldwell, Charles
Date
1852
Place
Cincinnati
Publisher
J.A. & U.P. James
Language
English
Binding
Small 8vo.(4.5" x 7.5") 165 pp. Full green cloth with all over blindstamp to covers. Spine with gilt lettering. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, head and foot of spine ruffled with tinyl closed tears, upper board soiled/stained. Small amount of foxing primarily to the front and rear of the text block and to the top of some pages toward the center. One long fold to pg 149/150 leaving creases.
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Thoughts on the Original Unity of the Human Race by Charles Caldwell, first published in 1830, is a now-obscure but once influential book that explores early 19th-century scientific and philosophical ideas about race and human origins. Caldwell (1772–1853), a physician and professor of medicine, was a controversial figure who combined medical training with speculative anthropology. In Thoughts on the Original Unity of the Human Race, Caldwell argues against the then-emerging theory of polygenism (the belief that different races originated separately) and instead supports monogenism—the idea that all humans share a common origin. However, while he insists on the original unity of the human species, Caldwell simultaneously holds racially hierarchical views that reflect the prejudices of his era.
Category
Science & Medicine
Record
S.I.7989

Small 8vo.(4.5" x 7.5") 165 pp. 1852. Cincinnati: J.A. & U.P. James. Full green cloth with all-over blindstamp to covers. Spine with gilt lettering. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, upper board soiled/stained. Small amount of foxing primarily to the front and rear of the text block and to the top of some pages toward the center. One long fold to pg 149/150 leaving creases. Thoughts on the Original Unity of the Human Race by Charles Caldwell, first published in 1830, is a now-obscure but once influential book that explores early 19th-century scientific and philosophical ideas about race and human origins. Caldwell (1772–1853), a physician and professor of medicine, was a controversial figure who combined medical training with speculative anthropology. In Thoughts on the Original Unity of the Human Race, Caldwell argues against the then-emerging theory of polygenism (the belief that different races originated separately) and instead supports monogenism—the idea that all humans share a common origin. However, while he insists on the original unity of the human species, Caldwell simultaneously holds racially hierarchical views that reflect the prejudices of his era.

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